Working on his game around the country pays off this spring season
Telegram & Gazette
Jack Gardner’s journey to playing Division 1 college baseball was a long one literally and altered by a 2018 injury and last season’s abrupt ending, but the former St. John’s High star never wavered from working hard.
“I truly believe the game rewards those who persevere,” Gardner said during a phone interview Tuesday morning.
Gardner’s senior season at Morehead State in Kentucky is off to a terrific start. The Eagles’ top catcher is batting .344 to rank among the leaders in the Ohio Valley Conference. He leads the team with 3 home runs, 10 RBIs and 20 total bases.
Former Shrewsbury star Delaney Couture returns to action at Providence
Forward helps Friars to victory after long layoff with knee injury
Telegram & Gazette
Former Shrewsbury High hockey standout Delaney Couture returned to action Feb. 5 for No. 10 Providence after being sidelined for about seven weeks with a knee injury.
In the Friars’ 5-4 win over New Hampshire on Feb. 6, Couture assisted on the winning goal at 14:13 of the third period.
Couture, who finished her illustrious career at Shrewsbury with 186 goals and 86 assists and recorded the most points and most hat tricks of any player (female or male) in Colonials history, tore the medial patellofemoral ligament in her right knee and also sustained a minor sprain of her medial collateral ligament during practice the day before PC’s semester-ended series with Maine in mid-December.